THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOEY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 59. NOVEMBER 1902. 



XLTX. — Notes on the Natural History of East Finmarh. By 

 Canon A. M. NoRMAN, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 F.L.S. 



I HAD spent three summer holidays in dredging-excursions in 

 South and West Norway, and in 1890 I resolved to go to tlie 

 extreme nortli-eastern district of Norway, in order to obtain 

 the more arctic fauna. 



East Finmark is a portion of that country which was 

 formerly called Lapland, and commences a little to the east of 

 the North Cape at the Porsanger Fiord. It extends thence to 

 the Russian frontier as its eastern boundary, \vhile to its south 

 lies the northern frontier of Finland. 



It is generally known that the extent of the Norwegian 

 seaboard is very great, and is about 2000 miles from Christi- 

 ania to the Varanger Fiord ; but it is not usually realized 

 how greatly tlie Norwegian coast all the way up trends east- 

 wards, and, of course, directly east after the North Cape has 

 been rounded : so that Vadso on the Varanger Fiord is not 

 only as far north as Disco in Baffin's Bay and as Icy Cape in 

 Alaska, far within Behring Strait, but also nearly two degrees 

 further east than Constantinople. 



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